How to format your references using the BMC Blood Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BMC Blood Disorders. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Legenstein R. Computer science: Nanoscale connections for brain-like circuits. Nature. 2015;521:37–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kodama R, Fast-Ignitor Consortium. Fast heating scalable to laser fusion ignition. Nature. 2002;418:933–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Watts DJ, Dodds PS, Newman MEJ. Identity and search in social networks. Science. 2002;296:1302–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Driskell AC, Ané C, Burleigh JG, McMahon MM, O’meara BC, Sanderson MJ. Prospects for building the tree of life from large sequence databases. Science. 2004;306:1172–4.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Technical Planning for on-site Emergencies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1995.

An edited book

1. Dewsbury G, Dobson J, editors. Responsibility and Dependable Systems. London: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Smyth M. Review of Existing Solar Wineries. In: Russell J, Milanowski T, editors. Solar Energy in the Winemaking Industry. London: Springer; 2011. p. 241–356.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for BMC Blood Disorders.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Self-Healing Concrete Repairs Its Own Cracks. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/self-healing-concrete-repairs-its-own-cracks/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Missile Development: Development Status of the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bartenhagen J. Transitioning organizations for sustainability: Exploring the intersection of sustainability, worldview, and organization development. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Saslow L. Unexpected State Aid to Ease School Taxes. New York Times. 2008;:LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	BMC Blood Disorders
ISSN (print)	1471-2326
Scope